Aug 5, 2012

Start your morning right with these healthy bran muffins lightly sweetened with honey, fresh blueberries and coconut flakes. So moist and delicious, you won't even realize they are light.

Someone recently shared this bran muffin recipe with me and I am glad she did. It's been years since I had a bran muffin, but my first time actually making them and I was surprised how good they turned out. Enjoy one for breakfast with a cup of coffee or tea and you are good to go. Freeze the rest to enjoy throughout the month or make a half batch.

I can't believe I haven't found your blog until today (thanks to pinterest)! All your recipes look so delicious (I've only been browsing for a few minutes and have 8 recipes bookmarked already). These muffins look glorious :)

Would it be possible to give the alternative for your baking recipes for those of us who don't eat eggs? I'm not sure how much applesauce, for example, would suffice in replacing the two eggs. Any ideas? Thanks!

Hi Anonymous & Gina - as far as replacing the eggs, I recently had good luck with replacing eggs in a chocolate zucchini muffin recipe with Chia Seed - Use 1 tbsp Chia seed + 3 tbsp water for each egg required. Soak for 20 minutes. It will work as a binder like an egg would - plus they are SUPER good for you ! - Valerie

I made these last night, as we had blueberries on hand that needed to be used. I was surprised at how full my muffin cups were, this recipe filled all 16 to the brim, and they rose as well. Had one and a half for breakfast this morning. Such a nice alternative to my boring cereal or oatmeal. Next time, will take the spice additions from Stephanie above. Thanks for another great recipe, Gina. Love your blog!

I made these last night with white flour and canola oil instead of coconut oil. I don't really taste any coconut flavor in the finished product. I filled the muffin cups all the way up and got 12 big, domed muffins and 16 mini muffins. Yum :-)

Made these last night- the family really liked them (although they said they could tell that they were healthy by the taste of the wheat flour!!)- now I'm trying them out on my co-workers this morning. I substituted oat bran and skim milk, but otherwise followed the recipe exactly...thanks!

A friend of mine makes her bran muffins with bran flakes/cereal. Do you think this would work for these? I bought some cereal because I was going to try her recipe, but it has a TON of fat and sugar in it.

I made these tonight and very tastey! I really recommend baking these to anyone who is on the fence. My husband of course didn't like them because they weren't full of sugar, but more for me. :) However, I am having a heck of time with my muffins sticking to the paper wrappers. I didn't spray this batch because I didn't read to (I could have missed it). Interesting note though, I had to use 4 silicon reusable muffin cups because I ran out of pans and sprayed those and they didn't stick!

Hi Gina! LOVE LOVE LOVE your site!!!! I've been craving banana bran muffins- do you think it'd be possible to add banana to this recipe? If so, should I adjust any of the other ingredients? Thanks for being awesome!!

Made these last night hoping they'd be good for my mom. I used the canola instead of coconut oil, and substituted 2 tbls flax seed and 6 tbls water for the eggs. I also left out the walnuts and used maybe 8 ounces of berries.

The muffins domed really nice, but when I went to peel the paper away, the entire bottom of the muffin came with it. I reheated the oven and put them in for an additional 9 minutes, and the bottom half of the muffins are still VERY wet. Any suggestions?

I made these (according to recipe) and as always turned out amazing!! My one year old shovels them in and when she sees me grabbing it she goes "mmmmmmm!" She is also a fan of the baked blueberry and banana oatmeal, but it's a mess so we tried these. Delicious!

Absolutely LOVE making these muffins. I always double the recipe and store them in the fridge for an easy, healthy breakfast. I toast them in the toaster oven and put a light smear of cream cheese...delish! Even my picky husband likes them.

I made there for breakfast today. They were so good. At first I thought it was way too much blueberry but I'm happy I followed the recipe. They were great. Loved the flavor and texture. It didn't taste like a healthy muffin to me. It felt like a treat.